“My grandmother said one learns English to woo a girl but when there’s heartbreak, you come back to Urdu,” shares Devyesh Tripathi, a lawyer practising at the Delhi High Court. The Urdu enthusiast ...

After we arrived in upstate New York in the fall of 2017 as cultural exchange visitors, we kept thinking about how to introduce the people here to some aspects of Pakistani culture. We kept bouncing ...

BEIJING: In China, an increasing number of students are interested to learn Urdu, the national language of Pakistan, said Prof Zhou Yuan on Sunday. Prof Zhou is the head of Urdu Department at the ...

LAHORE: “Proficiency in one’s mother tongue is important for creative expression. English-medium instruction has destroyed students’ interest in our national languages,” Pakistan National Language ...

Urdu may be a bit more challenging than other languages, but a growing number of Chinese students are choosing to learn the vernacular anticipating opportunities to be offered by Chinese companies ...

Reading an Urdu couplet is not only a delight for your soul but also an elixir for your brain. A recent study by the Center for Bio-Medical Researches (CBMR), Lucknow, suggests that reading Urdu ...

In a world tearing itself apart over who belongs, language offers us a chance to remember how not to fracture and that we are ...

Being organised by the state government’s language department, the classes have been drawing a diverse group of participants in Ludhiana Eager-to-learn students greeted teachers at the ...